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About Me shoots over to my Google page

I'm a recovering IT Quality Assurance Manager who refuses to spend even one minute sharing facts about privacy because I'm now busy putting words into someone else's mouth -- I now provide excellent driving instructions from the shotgun seat. This is the place where I share some of the poems I have written/published as the Tumbleweed Contessa, As for me personally, I am looking (sometimes desperately) for that sweet balance between growing old gracefully and staying as young as possible for as long as possible while I spend hours painting, and writing, and way too much time finding new ways to over use ellipses... seriously... :)

I love my coffee so much I travel with my coffee maker

I'm a news and politics junky

I'm definitely into books of most genres

Cable TV free and loving it...seriously, why PAY to watch TV when there's so much more to life?

I love words but, IMHO, just okay at Scrabble

I am very nice...just ask anyone (except those who don't think I am) LOL

I used to eat cake; now I just rub it on my thighs...well, it's going to end up there anyway, right?

Being a retired Pug Herder, I now live with, and love, my only PUG PUPPY-BOY C2 (Second Chance/Chance the Second -- so named because his name was Chance but he had life-saving surgery, so now...)

I used to be a really, really good dancer, now I'm just trying to stay on my bicycle

This is pretty much the first cross-genre book, I think, I have read and while I would like to give each of the stories in the anthology a review; I won't. Who'd want to read it except the individual authors and the editor/contributor......

Romance novels can be hit or miss with me and I was surprised at how involved I became with the story in "Damn, Girl. That Sucks."
Heroine, Ivy, lacks some needed chutzpah, but readers can see right away that her vulnerability to perso...